Brain into gear activity: Lesson 3 Can you list 3 natural fibres? Brain into gear activity: Lesson 3 Cotton Wool Silk Hemp Bamboo Angora Learning Focus: - To research a Pop Art Artists to inspire new ideas. - Create a mood board and develop presentation skills using ICT. Research a Pop Art Artists work and create a Learning Outcomes mood board. 1-2 Computer generated Mood board. A selection of images 1. Open a blank PowerPoint document. Included the Pop Art artist name as the title. 2. Save it as <your name, mood board and 3-5 the Pop Art artist> eg, peter smith, Nicely presented Mood Board with 5+ images. mood board, David Hockey You have selected a colour theme and fonts. 3. Open a web page to Google. 4. Type in keywords < Pop Art artist >. 6-7 Well presented mood board with 10+ images that make uses of PowerPoint tools. Has your 5. Select images of interest to paste to your unique style of presentation. mood board. Explain the Pop Art artist work/style. 6. Create a theme to your mood board by changing background colours and fonts. 8-9 Descriptive language that describes the artists 7. Add key words and information to work and what mood it portrays. explain your artists work/style. Key words: Research, Influence, Collate, Descriptive, abstract, texture, pattern, stylised, cartoon, colourful, repeat pattern, everyday items, bold, vibrant , shape, hobbies, portraits. What is a Mood Board A collage of images and text expressing a certain topic or subject, often used to generate ideas or for design work. MOOD BOARD Definition: A mood board is a collage (digital or paper) of objects (images, colours, screenshots, patterns, text etc.) which try to capture a feeling, theme or design. Mood Board Purposes: 1. They are to help generate ideas. 2. They can share ideas. 3. They can be used to give feedback to clients and design teams. Your Mood Board needs to include the following: 1. Title of the Pop Art Artist. 2. Images of there work (minmum 5). 3. Text with information about the Pop Art artist work/style. 4. All this put together onto 1 page to create a feeling for the artists theme. https://m.theartstory.org/movement/pop-art/ Key Artists You can use the links below to find out more information. Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein James Rosenquist Claes Oldenburg Eduardo Paolozzi Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein David Hockney Jasper John Peter Blake Keith Haring Summary of Pop Art Started: Mid 1950s Ended: Late 1970s Pop art started in New York. Popular artists included Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg. Following the popularity of the Abstract Expressionists, Pop's reintroduction of identifiable imagery (drawn from mass media and popular culture) was a major shift for the direction of modernism. The subject matter became far from traditional "high art" themes of morality, mythology, and classic history; rather, Pop artists celebrated commonplace objects and people of everyday life, in this way seeking to elevate popular culture to the level of fine art. Perhaps owing to the incorporation of commercial images, Pop art has become one of the most recognisable styles of modern art. Key Ideas & Accomplishments •By creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars, the Pop art movement aimed to blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture. The concept that there is no hierarchy of culture and that art may borrow from any source has been one of the most influential characteristics of Pop art. •It could be argued that the Abstract Expressionists searched for trauma in the soul, while Pop artists searched for traces of the same trauma in the mediated world of advertising, cartoons, and popular imagery at large. But it is perhaps more precise to say that Pop artists were the first to recognise that there is no unmediated access to anything, be it the soul, the natural world, or the built environment. Pop artists believed everything is inter-connected, and therefore sought to make those connections literal in their artwork. •Although Pop art encompasses a wide variety of work with very different attitudes and postures, much of it is somewhat emotionally removed. In contrast to the "hot" expression of the gestural abstraction that preceded it, Pop art is generally "coolly" ambivalent. Whether this suggests an acceptance of the popular world or a shocked withdrawal, has been the subject of much debate. •Pop artists seemingly embraced the post-World War II manufacturing and media boom. Some critics have cited the Pop art choice of imagery as an enthusiastic endorsement of the capitalist market and the goods it circulated, while others have noted an element of cultural critique in the Pop artists' elevation of the everyday to high art: tying the commodity status of the goods represented to the status of the art object itself, emphasizing art's place as, at base, a commodity. •The majority of Pop artists began their careers in commercial art: Andy Warhol was a highly successful magazine illustrator and graphic designer; Ed Ruscha was also a graphic designer, and James Rosenquist started his career as a billboard painter. Their background in the commercial art world trained them in the visual vocabulary of mass culture as well as the techniques to seamlessly merge the realms of high art and popular culture..